Salt Publishing 2005 Winner: Samuel Wagan Watson – Smoke Encrypted Whispers, University of Queensland Press M. T. C. Cronin – < More or Less Than> 1–100, Shearsman Books Ltd Lidija Cvetkovic – War is Not the Season for Figs, University of Queensland Press John Kinsella – Doppler Effect, Salt Publishing Dipti Saravanamuttu – The Colosseum, Five Islands Press Alan Wearne – The Lovemakers Book Two: Money and Nothing, ABC Books 2004 Winner: Pam Brown – Dear Deliria: New & Selected Poems, Salt Publishing Jordie Albiston – The Fall, White Crane Press M. T. C. Cronin – beautiful, unfinished Salt Publishing Brook Emery – Misplaced Heart, Five Islands Press Philip Hammial – In the Year of Our Lord Slaughter's Children, Island Press John Tranter – Studio Moon, Salt Publishing 2003 Winner: Jill Jones – Screens Jets Heaven Alison Croggon – Attempts at Being Kate Lilley – Versary Emma Lew – Anything the Landlord Touches Sarah Day – New and Selected Poems Robert Gray – Afterimages 2002 Winner: Alan Wearne – The Lovemakers, Penguin Books Australia Robert Adamson – Mulberry Leaves: New & Selected Poems: 1970–2001, Paper Bark Press Martin Harrison – Summer, Paper Bark Press Dorothy Hewett – Halfway Up the Mountain, Fremantle Arts Centre Press Bronwyn Lea – Flight Animals, University of Queensland Press Gig Ryan – Heroic Money, Brandl & Schlesinger John Tranter – Ultra, Brandl & Schlesinger 2001 Winner: Ken Taylor – Africa, Five Islands Press Jennifer Compton – Blue, Ginninderra Press Brook Emery – and dug my fingers in the sand, Five Islands Press Philip Hammial – Bread, Black Pepper J. S. Harry – Sun Shadow, Moon Shadow, Vagabond Press Wendy Jenkins – Rogue Equations, Fremantle Arts Centre Press 2000 Winner: Jennifer Maiden – Mines, Paper Bark Press/Australian Humanities Research Foundation Richard James Allen – Thursday's Fictions, Five Islands Press M. T. C. Cronin – Everything Holy, Balcones International Press Jennifer Harrison – Dear B, Black Pepper Kevin Hart – Wicked Heat, Paper Bark Press John Millett – Iceman, Five Islands Press 1999 and before Award winners: 1999: Lee Cataldi – Race Against Time, Penguin Books Australia 1998: no awards were presented 1997: Anthony Lawrence – The Viewfinder, University of Queensland Press 1996: Eric Beach – Weeping for Lost Babylon, HarperCollins and J. S. Harry – Selected Poems, Penguin Books Australia 1995: Peter Boyle – Coming Home From the World, Five Islands Press 1994: Barry Hill –